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- \ / Primordial Life -- Shareware v3.14 / \
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- /\ Copyright (C) 1996 Jason Spofford \ /
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-
- Thanks for trying Primordial Life! Your screen is transformed
- into a artificial world where living biots can survive and multiply.
- The course of evolution can take many paths, resulting in thousands
- of biot shapes. Watch biots battle for survival. Don't be surprised
- if you end up spending hours watching the dynamics of evolution!
-
- >>> Please Note: Primordial Life 3.14 will not connect to, or <<<<
- >>> accept connections from Primordial Life 3.13 or earlier. <<<<
-
- *** What is Primordial Life? ***
-
- Primordial Life is actually two programs. One program
- runs Primordial Life as a screen saver and the other runs
- Primordial Life inside a window on your Windows 95 or
- Windows NT computer.
-
- A help file included with Primordial Life which explains the
- simulation in depth. Just run Primordial Life and select help.
-
-
- *** What is new in Primordial 3.1? ***
-
- Primordial Life 3.1 brings networking to biot worlds. Now you can
- connect biot worlds together over a TCP/IP network. With a 32 bit
- TCP/IP stack, you can connect your world to up to 4 others. There
- is no limit to the number of worlds you can interconnect! Watch as
- the diversity of life increases as you expand the known biot universe.
-
- Primordial Life 3.1 also attempted to fix some video related
- problems seen in 3.0. Note that the Diamond Stealth may still
- leave trails. I must conclude that the Diamond Stealth drivers
- are buggy when drawing from the context of a thread. If you have a
- Diamond Stealth, give it a try anyway. If it doesn't work for you,
- you can revert to the drivers Microsoft wrote for the Diamond Stealth
- on your Windows 95 CD.
-
- If you are a dial up user, I don't recommend using the network feature
- in the screen saver. Run the windowed program instead. When the
- screen saver starts, it might envoke the dialup dialog which will
- cause the screen saver to terminate immediately. If you dial up prior
- to using the screen saver, it should work for you.
-
-
- *** Primordial Life Installation Instructions ***
-
- Prim31.exe is a self extracting file. Chances are you already
- have installed this program since you are reading this file.
- Prim31.exe will install the Windows program and related files
- into the directory of your choice. It will also install the
- screen saver (Primordial Life 3.1.scr) into the \Windows\System
- or on NT, the \Winnt\System32 directory.
-
- The installation program does not add the program to your start
- menu. If you'd like to do that, just go to Start->Settings->Taskbar
- menu and add it to the menu of your choice.
-
- If you are running Windows 95, or Windows NT 4.0, the installation
- program will copy a shortcut icon to your desktop.
-
-
- *** Shareware Notice ***
-
- Primordial Life is shareware. If you like it, please register. If you
- decide to register, press the "I want to buy it!" button found by pressing
- the "Register!" button on the Primordial Life settings dialog. It will start
- register.exe which will provide details on how to purchase Primordial Life.
-
- Primordial Life is now registered to you and not to a specific machine.
- That means you will be able to move Primordial Life from one computer to
- another or upgrade your computer without worrying if your Primordial Life
- registration will still work.
-
-
- *** Disclaimer of Warranty ***
-
- To use this software, you are must agree with the following terms.
-
- THIS SOFTWARE AND THE ACCOMPANYING FILES ARE SOLD "AS IS" AND
- WITHOUT WARRANTIES AS TO PERFORMANCE OF MERCHANTABILITY OR ANY
- OTHER WARRANTIES WHETHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. Because of the
- various hardware and software environments into which the software
- may be put into and because it is possible that software itself
- contains software defects, NO WARRANTY OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
- PURPOSE IS OFFERED. Should any problem with the software be found,
- the seller is not required to inform the purchaser, even if it the
- problem is damaging. The user assumes the entire risk of using
- this program. ANY LIABILITY OF THE SELLER WILL BE LIMITED
- EXCLUSIVELY TO PRODUCT REPLACEMENT OR REFUND OF PURCHASE PRICE.
-
-
- *** Registration ***
-
- If you'd like Primordial Life to continue to evolve, please register.
- There are several ways to pay for Primordial Life. Through an
- Internet based shareware fee collection company, I can accept credit cards,
- as well as other forms of payment. Included in this distribution is a
- program called "register.exe". Run that program for more details and
- see http://www.kagi.com to learn about the shareware fee collection company.
-
- Soon you will be able to order on-line by going to my web site at
- http://www.io.com/~spofford
-
- Primordial Life is just $12.00 for a single user, single computer license.
- If you own or operate more than one computer, you can get a license for
- 2-4 computers for $18. Please note that you must be the primary
- user of each of these computers or the computer must reside in your primary
- residence. The next version I produce will be yours free.
-
- To upgrade to a single user, 2-4 computer license from Primordial Life 2.0,
- 3.0 or 3.1 costs $8.
-
- A site license lets multiple people run Primordial Life that belong to a
- particular organization at a specific site (~50 mile radius). That license
- costs $60. A world-wide license lets multiple people run Primordial Life
- that belong to a particular organization at any site. That license costs $120.
-
- NOTE: If you'd like to receive a *diskette* with Primordial Life, please
- indicate that in your comments. Otherwise I will assume that Internet
- delivery is acceptable.
-
-
- *** If you have any questions or comments ***
-
- You can reach me at:
-
- Jason Spofford
- 11040 Crossland Drive
- Austin, Texas 78726
-
- email: spofford@io.com
-
- You can visit my web page at:
- HTTP://www.io.com/~spofford
-
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